Revista Poetómanos Año 2 No.5

"Perlesvaus o El Alto Libro del Graal" es una de las obras mas originales y complejas de aquella singular literatura que, durante la Edad Media, elaboro el ultimo gran mito de Occidente: el Graal. Escrita a principios del sigloXIII en el norte de Francia por un autor que prefirio ocultarse en el anonimato, Perlesvaus, igual que el Parzival de Von Eschenbach (Siruela, 1999), nace de un estrecho dialogo con las obras que la precedieron para acentuar con fuerza su propia interpretacion del mito. Con un estilo propio que rechaza los moldes habituales de las novelas arturicas, esta obra sin par...

It collects the lectures and communications of the II Jornades sobre Teoria i Crítica dels Discursos Creatius (II Meeting about Creative Discourse's Theory and Critic). The contributions around this topic were given by Antoni Marí, Lluís Meseguer, Sam Abrams, Josep Maria Fulquet, Enric Satué, Juan Manuel Vera, Marta Conejero, Amparo Hurtado, Maria Oliver, among others.

This volume of collected essays explores the premise that Plutarch's work, notwithstanding its amazing thematic multifariousness, constantly pivots on certain ideological pillars which secure its unity and coherence. So, unlike other similar books which, more or less, concentrate on either the Lives or the Moralia or on some particular aspect(s) of Plutarch's oeuvre, the articles of the present volume observe Plutarch at work in both Lives and Moralia, thus bringing forward and illustrating the inner unity of his varied literary production. The subject-matter of the volume is uncommonly...

Antonio Perez, the brilliant but erratic secretary to Philip II of Spain, became in the years of his exile a political agent in the service of the Earl of Essex, arriving at the Court of Queen Elizabeth in 1593. On behalf of Essex, who valued him as a friend, a partner and a humanist scholar, he cast an intelligence network over Italy; and he made a striking, though dangerous, contribution to the Essex cult.